Examples of 'preferment' in a sentence
Meaning of "preferment"
preferment (noun): Preferment is a term that refers to the act of promoting or advancing someone to a higher position, status, or rank, especially in a professional or social setting
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- Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
- The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.).
- Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
- A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
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He refused preferment when his party was in power.
He has instead relied on preferment from others.
For preferment for her own children.
The first step is to make the preferment.
After this preferment came quickly.
I started things off by creating a poolish or preferment.
Circumstance deprived him of a preferment which he so well deserves.
The preferment mixture is allowed to ferment.
I understand there is some concern over my desires on preferment.
Payment or preferment as a requirement of marriage.
To implement a new soil policy intended preferment to subsidised housing.
Preferment in that direction.
This is the great preferment.
It is also a preferment that the combinatorial synthesis be carried out on a solid support.
Those photographs say much more than any preferment.
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She hates preferment.
Immediately following the change there was a great competition for church preferment.
He looks for preferment.
In a preferment the inventive method further comprises in step f purifying the elongation product of step e.
Trust me with thy preferment.
The niceties of preferment and promotion made family connections an obvious advantage for prospective officers.
This was his only preferment.
His preferment as Abbot he owes both to the church and to the King.
He quickly won further preferment.
He supported the preferment of George Neville to archbishop.
He has been given every preferment.
Liu Yu also received preferment and was promoted to Grand Commander.
The authors were by no means always in search of preferment or of papal favour.
Let alone preferment for a self-acknowledged murderer.
This placed him in a good position for future preferment and appointments.
The preferment mixture is cooled by the heat exchanger 60 to a desired temperature.
You have had no hesitation in finding preferment for your own sons.
The case was highly politicized and both prosecutors and judge later received preferment.
Unhappily for Dashwood no preferment was forthcoming.
The benefits of the present invention can be realised without the need of using a preferment.
I have an ancient name which will bring you preferment when your grandson is a Wessex.
Yet the Everlasting Life is greater in rank and greater in preferment.
And I have been singled out for preferment by the King of England.
Members asked whether Bosnia and Herzegovina remained a pluralist State which rejected ethnic discrimination or preferment.
If rising, military preferment and riches.
There he continued all his life, refusing preferment.
According to another variant, the acid preferment of the improver H may be a pasty leaven.
The Restoration was fatal to his preferment.
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Later his High Church opinions established him in preferment and position.
Advantageously, the acid preferment of the improver H may be a dry leaven.
With family connections, his church preferment was rapid.
The cooled preferment mixture flows out of the heat exchanger 60 through an outlet pipe 61.
During the second, he tries to obtain secular preferment.
Knight documented how Masons give each other preferment in hiring, promotion and business.
